In this episode, Julie and I discuss  porn and our experiences of it growing up, the different legal models for sex work reform, the benefits and risks of participating in the sex work industry, and how our views were formed and have changed over the years.

Sex Work:  The proposed legal models

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My memoir about life as a midwife in the NHS, Overdue:  Birth, Burnout and a Blueprint For a Better NHS is available from most online book retailers. 

How can we know if we're making choices about our appearance from a place of autonomy when we've been subject to entrenched gender norms,  misogyny, and the commodification  of our bodies from birth? Do we have a responsibility to ourselves, our children and  each  other to reject  practices that perpetuate harmful ideals and objectify women's bodies?  Or is there empowerment to be found in making these kinds  of choices? In this episode, my favourite feminist rage buddy, Julie Boddy, and I discuss these topics and more.

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My memoir about life as a midwife in the NHS, Overdue:  Birth, Burnout and a Blueprint For a Better NHS is available from most online book retailers. 

Birth trauma is experienced by one-third of those who give birth, which in the UK is 235,000 people per year.  Intervention rates are skyrocketing, midwives are leaving the profession in droves, and mothers and babies are suffering irreparable harm. What in the world is going on with birth,  and how can we begin to identify and dismantle the systems of oppression that are making what should be a happy and empowering life event into something only to be survived?  In this episode, I speak to fellow radical midwife Kemi Johnson to discuss patriarchy's stranglehold on birth and where we go from here. 

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My memoir about life as a midwife in the NHS, Overdue:  Birth, Burnout and a Blueprint For a Better NHS is available from most online book retailers.